Rev. Dr. Allen Ewing-Merrill (he/him) serves as Executive Director of The BTS Center, a role he has held since 2019. Ordained in the Methodist tradition, Allen previously served local churches for 20 years, and as founding Executive Director of Hope Acts, a Portland, Maine nonprofit focusing on housing asylum seekers and helping immigrants succeed.

In addition to nonprofit and congregational leadership, he has extensive experience in advocacy, direct action, and faith-based organizing around issues of justice and equity. He is deeply engaged in conversations about faith-rooted action, about spiritual responses to the climate crisis, and about the role of spiritual leaders and faith communities in a time of religious, social, and political turmoil.

Allen is a graduate of the University of Maine (1992), Boston University School of Theology (M.Div. 2000), and Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC in collaboration with Wesley House, Cambridge UK (D.Min. 2023). He lives in Portland, Maine with his spouse, Rev. Sara Ewing-Merrill, and they are the parents of three daughters.